A CERTAIN Freshman who has been in the habit of spending the Sabbath in the bosom of his family during the past half-year, has aroused the admiration of his native town by appearing at church with a smoking cap and a cane.

A complete list of the periodicals and serials received by the various libraries in the University and by the principal libraries in Boston has been issued in uniform style with the Library bulletin.

THE first nine of the Hasty Pudding Club from '80 are: Robert Bacon, Richard Trimble, William Hooper, Charles Ware, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Jackson, Henry R. Shaw, Andrew Miller, Charles Morgan.

As the statue of Josiah Quincy was being raised on the costly and beautiful pedestal which the College has provided for it, Snodkins remarked that it was the first time he had ever known of a President of Harvard College being suspended.

THE President says in his report that the first scholarship in Harvard College was founded in 1852. This will be news to William Browne of Salem, who gave pound 100 to the College in 1687 "for the bringing up of poor scholars."

THE annual meeting and dinner of the Dartmouth alumni in Boston and vicinity occurred Wednesday evening at the Revere House. A large company was present, and speeches were made by President Bartlett and a large number of other gentlemen.

THE following is the programme of the first Chamber Concert to be given in Boylston Hall: Quartette in E minor, op. 59, Beethoven; Quartette in Bb, Mendelssohn. Mr. George Osgood will sing. The Concert will begin promptly at 7.45, and the doors will be kept closed during the first piece.

THE report that the apparatus of the old Gymnasium would be used in furnishing the new one is without foundation. Those who have the matter in charge say that all the furniture of the Hemenway Gymnasium will be new, as the old apparatus is totally unfit for even its present use, and, if taken apart, could never be put together again.

IN the "Notes and Queries" at the Library appear the following questions: What is the derivation of milk-punch? What is the source of the quotation, "Jehovah needs very few chore-boys"? How can I get Joseph Cook's lecture on "Ultimate America"? To this last question some one has answered, "By asking Joseph." The "Notes and Queries" are truly a great institution.

A SERIES of Three Chamber Concerts will be given at Boylston Hall on Thursday evenings, Feb. 13, March 13, April 10, 1879, by the New York Philharmonic Club, Mr. Richard Arnold, Leader. The programmes will be selected from the Chamber Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and other great masters. The Concerts will begin at a quarter before eight, and end before half past nine o'clock. A few tickets, at $ 300 for the Course, may still be obtained at Sever's.

CONVERSATION yesterday morning at the entrance of Holyoke:-

FIRST SOPHOMORE. I say, Tom, how do you like this foggy weather?

SECOND SOPHOMORE (who is nothing if not English). O, very well, Bob, very well. It's so English, you know.

MR. WINSOR'S first annual report as Librarian of Harvard University has been printed. Mr. Winsor discusses the subject of catalogues, and speaks of the improvement of the Library bulletin, of the growth of the Library, and of the work done by the Library service. He recommends that some arrangement be made for the use of the reading-room in the evening.

"How far can the government of a college or boarding school control its students in vacation time?